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Traditional Berber jewelry is a style of jewellery, originally worn by women and girls of different rural Berber groups of Morocco, Algeria and other North African countries. It is usually made of silver and includes elaborate triangular plates and pins, originally used as clasps for garments, necklaces, bracelets, earrings and similar items.
The Berber minority who make up between 15% [17] and 20% [18] [19] [20] to 24% [21] [22] [23] of the population are divided into many groups with varying languages. The largest Berber group in Algeria is the Kabyle people, who are concentrated in the Kabylia region of the country.
Since the Berber Spring of 1980, they have been at the forefront of the fight for the official recognition of Berber languages in Algeria. Etymology The word 'Kabyle' (Kabyle: Iqbayliyen) is an exonym , and a distortion of the Arabic word qaba'il (قبائل), which means 'tribes', or 'to accept', which after the Muslim conquest was used for ...
Map of Berber-speaking areas in Morocco. Morocco is the country with the greatest number of speakers of Berber languages. [57] [58] [60] As of 2022, Ethnologue estimates there to be 13.8 million speakers of Berber languages in Morocco, based on figures from 2016 and 2017. [61] In 1960, the first census after Moroccan independence was held.
Spanning 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the world's tenth-largest nation by area, and the largest nation in Africa. [14] It has a semi-arid climate, with the Sahara desert dominating most of the territory except for its fertile and mountainous north, where most of the population is concentrated.
Map of Chenoui areas. The Chenouis or Chenoua (Arabic: شناوة, Berber: Icenwiyen) are a Berber ethnic group native to the Chenoua Mountains in northern Algeria. They traditionally inhabit areas between the east of Ténès to the west of Cherchell. The Chenoui people number about 106,000.
The matriarch's 1,500-year-old monumental Tin Hinan tomb is located in the Sahara at Abalessa in the Hoggar Mountains of southern Algeria. Vestiges of an inscription in Tifinagh, the Tuareg's traditional Libyco-Berber writing script, have been found on one of the ancient sepulchre's walls. [31]
The surveys conducted during the senatus consultum of 1863 revealed significant confusion in the oral traditions of Algeria, making it challenging to distinguish between Arab and Berber groups. This difficulty stemmed from the Islamization and Arabization processes that led to numerous mythical genealogical reconstructions. [5]